Photography by Jonathan Chapman, 2002

Baoquan Chen

McKnight Land-Grant Professorship (2004-2006)

Research Interests
General Interests: Computer Graphics and Visualization
Specific Interests: Large Environment Acquisition, Accelerated Rendering, Antialiasing, Volume Visualization
Applications: Scientific & Biomedical Visualization, Digital Architecture Design, Art and Entertainment

Research

Service

Program committee member unless otherwise noted:

IEEE Visualization 2007, 2006 (general co-chair), 2005 (general co-chair), and 2004 (program co-chair)
Pacific Graphics 2007
Symposium on Point-based Graphics 2007 (program co-chair), 2006 (papers co-chair), 2005, 2004
PMA06: The Second International Symposium on Plant growth Modeling, Simulation, Visualization and Applications 2006 (also keynote speaker)
Eurographics/IEEE-VGTC Symposium on Visualization 2007, 2006
Eurographics Workshop on Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling (SBIM) 2007, 2006 (my report on SBIM'05)
International Conference on 3-D Digital Imaging and Modeling 2005
Symposium on Volume Visualization and Graphics (VolVis) 2004, 2002
Computer Graphics International 2005, 2004
IEEE Volume Graphics 2006, 2003, 2001

Misc

personal
Japan trip (July, 2003) (album - precious photos commemorating Shigeru Muraki, also in memory)

Short Biography

Baoquan Chen currently co-directs the 3D Digital City Research Center at Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, expanding on his research on 3D Laser Scanning research for fast urban modeling, an active research direction propelled by Google Earth 3D and Microsoft Virtual Earth 3D, and other 3D earth projects. His past affiliations at Minnesota included the Computer Science department, the Digital Technology Center, the Army High Performance Computing Research Center, and the Digital Design Consortium. His research interests generally lie in computer graphics and visualization, focusing specifically on 3D data acquisition, real-time rendering by both hardware and software (image-based, point-based rendering, and multi-resolution techniques), and volume visualization. His research has been supported by National Science Foundation (NSF), Army Research, Microsoft Research, Grant-in-Aid of Research, Artistry and Scholarship of the University of Minnesota and private donation. Chen received an MS in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing (1994), and a second MS (1997) and then PhD (1999) in Computer Science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His work experience prior to UofM includes researcher in Computer Science and Technology Research Institute of Beijing University, 1994-5 and research associate in the Media Research Laboratory, the Courant Institute, New York University, 1999-2000. Chen is the recipient of the Microsoft Innovation Excellence Program 2002, the NSF CAREER award 2003, McKnight Land-Grant Professorship for 2004-2006, and IEEE Visualization Best Paper Award 2005.